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Let me introduce you to the kiasu society…

This is just gonna be a very short post shouting my frustration about kiasu people.

What is kiasu, you ask?

Kiasu is literally translation of “scared of being lost.” In this context often used for people who go follow certain trend just because other people do that.

If you went to Singapore, you would likely see so many queues, usually in the food stall. Is the food guaranteed to be delicious because of the long queue?

NO!

Kiasu people tend to follow crowds. They don’t have identity or personal preference. They just follow crowds.

I have never been bothered about this until… TODAY!

I planned to have lunch at McDonald’s this noon, because obviously I want the cute minions. But they were SOLD out in the first 10 minutes because apparently people started to queue since morning and the queue was damn long!

I saw it before my very eyes some people who didn’t even know what minions are or even knew there was a movie named Despicable Me went to buy three sets of happy meal. They just wanted the minions! To take photos of them and then upload it to facebook and maybe after that they will never touch the minions again.

I WANT THE MINIONS! I want to play with minions!!!

Don’t be so kiasu until you make other people’s life more difficult, lah!!!

If you think I’m exaggerating, let me ask you to go to Tim Ho Wan, or Sushi Express, or go to McDonald’s in Thursday 11 a.m. then you’d understand.

A friend sent me a photo. Look how kiasu he is? Does he have 20 children for god’s sake!

The Queue for Happy Meal at McDonald’s today.

This also could apply to Liverpool vs Indonesia all-star football match. I read it in soc-med that a lot of real liverpool fans couldn’t get the tickets because A LOT OF KIASU people went to buy the tickets and I could bet that THEY CAN’T MENTION EVEN ONE FIRST NAME from the liverpool team. They bought the ticket just so they could take a photo, checked in on facebook and then live-tweeting during the whole game, without even enjoying the game.

I HATE THOSE PEOPLE!!! I HATE THEM!!! I hope they get kicked in the nuts (for guys) and get the most horrifying stomach cramp ever in their periods (for girls)!

I don’t understand why they would do that.

Are they satisfied by the feeling of exclusivity? importance? Feeling that they get it before other people? Is it because they don’t have life? They don’t feel important themselves they need to do those things to make them feel important?

Why are they so scared if other people have something that they don’t have? That’s fine if you don’t need the things, isn’t it?

I even see a kiasu person buy things just because she saw her friend bought that. In the end she didn’t even use the thing. Wow. Just wow.

It amuses me how people could be so insecure about stupid things.

Whatever, this made me so angry so it deserves am angry post!!!

P.S. talking about Minions, anyone here playing Minion Rush? I would love a challenge! =) add my game center ID: MAYELLOW or my facebook for a minion rush challenge! =) It’s more fun with more people. Right now I’m stuck at 477,452 while the number 1 score at my board is 1 million something. Tsk, I was thinking to unfriend him. Hahahaha.

You must have the most wonderful, the most entertaining anger in the world at your disposal :))))))))))). And a huge talent to put it in words.

Indeed mankind appears to be a herd species damned by a tendency to copy cast and a tendency to hoard up.

( But the flipside of human stupidity is that the marketing of some branches is really evil. They use to target children over here. The kids get bombarded by ads on TV showing a piece of trash they get for free if their parents shop in …. . So I think it’s crazy but kind of sweet also if I once again see my wife coming home with a supply of food which is enough for next decade only to make sure she can make our granddaughter happy with all that give away crap that went with the purchases).

i didnt even mac did another huge promo again… guess they didnt learn from the hello kitty incident. yes, what can i say? singaporeans are horrible… and do any of the people in the q look like they look the minions? no..

Honestly They did learn from the hello kitty incident. Now we are allowed to order the minions online. But it will be delivered around December. This is a good thing for me because I truly want the minions while for the kiasu people is definitely a turn-off. LOL

Well did you watch the first one? If you like the first one, there will be a chance you like the second one. It’s basically the same but they exploited the minions even more. I guess they don’t have a minion bill or act to stop the minions exploitation. LOL

goshhh…. saw a whole bunch of adults eating happy meal each thursday since the minion giveaway started … but funny thing is.. i don’t see them happy about it while they chew on their fries and munch on their corn and cheeseburger or maggot’snugget…cuma buat dapetin plastic toy yg in the end bakalan gathering dust gethuuuuuu..amit2